USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Feb. 12, 2018

February 12, 2018 5:15 PM • Updated: February 27, 2018 1:37 PM

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These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of Feb. 12, 2018, based on Navy and public data. In cases where a CSG or ARG is conducting disaggregated operations, the map reflects the location of the capital ship.

The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is operating in the South China Sea.

USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) is in the Western Pacific at a time the Navy’s only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), is moored in its homeport of Yokosuka, Japan, for a planned maintenance period that Navy officials say is expected to last a couple of months.

The Truman Carrier Strike Group is underway for composite training unit exercise, known as COMPTUEX, a month-long exercise designed to integrate the units of the strike group and test their ability to carry out combat operations at sea. Ships and air squadrons will be tested in areas such as air warfare, strait transits, and responses to surface and subsurface contacts and electronic attacks.

“COMPTUEX tests our ability to combine all units and capabilities within the strike group into a cohesive, multi-mission fighting force that can perform sustained combat operations at sea,” Rear Adm. Gene Black, commander of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, said in a statement.
“Performing this critical evolution now, before deployment, allows our strike group to find out its strengths, but more importantly to pinpoint where we can better integrate a team.”

The Harry S. Truman Strike Group (HSTCSG) participates in an exercise during a composite unit training exercise. HSTCSG is underway performing COMPTUEX, which evaluates the strike group’s ability as a whole to carry out sustained combat operations from the sea – ultimately certifying the HSTCSG for deployment on Feb. 8, 2018. US Navy Photo

Carrier:

USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)

Air Wing:
Carrier Air Wing One, embarked on Harry S. Truman

Staffs
Carrier Strike Group 8 and Destroyer Squadron 28

Guided-missile destroyers:

USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)

USS Bulkeley(DDG 84)

USS The Sullivans(DDG-68)

USS Winston S. Churchill(DDG-81)

USS Farragut(DDG-99)

USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109)

USS Forrest Sherman(DDG-98)

Guided-missile cruiser:

USS Normandy (CG-60) homeported in Naval Station Norfolk, Va.

Allied Ships

Royal Norwegian Navy frigate HNoMS Roald Amundsen(F 311)

German Navy frigate FGS Hessen (F 221)

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is underway for training, operating in the Virginia Capes.

In addition to these major formations, not shown are thousands of others serving in submarines, individual surface ships, aircraft squadrons, SEALs, Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Forces, Coast Guard cutters and more serving throughout the globe.